Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dusk is coming on apace. The ball is on the 6-yard line. Victory for the powerful Heliotrope eleven is five minutes away. The almost equally powerful Chocolate team is grim, desperate...
...Broadway, Manhattan, stands the home bank of Guaranty Trust Co., U. S. billion-dollar bank. At No. 31 Nassau St., Manhattan, stands the home bank of National Bank of Commerce, U. S. almost-billion-dollar bank. Should a ghost with the gift of flitting through walls flit through the rear wall of Guaranty Trust and continue flitting, it would flit through the rear wall of National Bank of Commerce. For these two great U. S. banks stand back to back. Between them they own almost the entire block bounded by Broadway and Nassau, Cedar, Liberty Streets...
...will stand as largest U. S. bank, as first U. S. bank with assets approximating two billions. From the standpoint of capital and surplus the merger-bank will be also world's largest. From the standpoint of deposits and total assets, London's Midland Bank Limited is larger ?almost a two-and-a-half-billion dollar bank. Other British banks with larger deposits are Lloyd's and Barclay's and approximately equal in deposits are Westminster and National Provincial...
...Other, almost forgotten sources of Lindbergh income are royalties from the sale of his book We, pay from the New York Times for articles signed by him and duty-pay from the Missouri National Guard in which he is a colonel. For flying from Long Island to Paris he received $25,000 from Hotelman Raymond Orteig of Philadelphia ; for his Good Will flight over Mexico and Central America, $25,000 from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation...
...Miss Pickford. Social leaders, they dance only with each other. She looks after the family accounts. After making his first picture, The Lamb, for the old Triangle company for $2,000 a week, he developed a type of film peculiar to himself, spent $700,000 on The Three Musketeers, almost as much on Robin Hood. Other famous ones: The Nut, The Thief of Bagdad, Don Q, The Black Pirate, The Gaucho...